Ilić Vujo
Vujo Ilić is a research fellow and assistant director at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. He holds a PhD in political science from Central European University in Budapest, where he specialized in comparative politics. His research interests include democracy, elections, political participation, political conflicts, and violence, with a specific focus on Southeast Europe. At the Institute, he contributes to various research projects, including Network of Networks for Democracy (Nets4Dem) and Enlightened Trust (EnTrust), funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe program. He is also a member of ActiveLab, the Laboratory for Active Citizenship and Democratic Innovations. Vujo frequently serves as an expert on international projects and as a consultant for both domestic and international organizations, mainly in developing public policies and designing empirical research, especially surveys. He has received several awards, including the Central European University Best Dissertation Award (2020) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities Best Doctoral Paper Award (2016).
Latest publications
- Irena Fiket, Čedomir Markov, Vujo Ilić, Gazela Pudar Draško. 2024. (Eds.) Participatory Democratic Innovations in Southeast Europe: How to Engage in Flawed Democracies. London: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003426103
- Irena Fiket, Gazela Pudar Draško, Vujo Ilić. 2024. The pandemic in illiberal democracies: Challenges and opportunities for social movements in Serbia. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 24 (1): 79-100. doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2023.2170720
- Vujo Ilić. 2024. Orbán and Vučić: from Disparate Beginnings to Shared Values. In: Sabrina P. Ramet, László Kürti (Eds.) Civic and Uncivic Values in Hungary: Value Transformation, Politics, and Religion (146-164). London: Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003488842-10